Jedis Deflecting Blaster Bolts

[GoodKingJayIII]

Well, don't forget, he's also a quadruple amputee lugging around a big metal body. And Obi Wan really DID take a major age penalty*!

*However, somebody help my memory here: Obi Wan in the prequals couldn't be older than 30 or so at the time of episode III, but he's at least 60 or 70 in episode IV. Shouldn't he have been closer in age/ability to Qui Gon by the time of episode IV?

According to wookieepedia (take it as you will) Obi-Wan was born 57 years before the Battle of Yavin, so he's only 57 at the time of Ep IV, and about 39 or 40 at the end of Ep III.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

At first I read the title as Jesus deflecting blaster bolts and thought 'now there's a good bit to use massively out of context.'

 

[Grymar]

Well, don't forget, he's also a quadruple amputee lugging around a big metal body. And Obi Wan really DID take a major age penalty*!

*However, somebody help my memory here: Obi Wan in the prequals couldn't be older than 30 or so at the time of episode III, but he's at least 60 or 70 in episode IV. Shouldn't he have been closer in age/ability to Qui Gon by the time of episode IV?

I cringe now watching the original trilogy because of all of the continuity errors that the prequels caused, Obi-wan's age being just one of them.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I cringe now watching the original trilogy because of all of the continuity errors that the prequels caused, Obi-wan's age being just one of them.

See, I simply cringe when watching the prequels, since they are the problem, after all.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

I cringe now watching the original trilogy because of all of the continuity errors that the prequels caused, Obi-wan's age being just one of them.

Maybe umm... FTL technology somehow breaks down over the course of the intervening decade and a half between Episodes 3 and 4, such that it now takes much longer to transverse the distances between planets, and thus the reason Ben seems older is because he took many trips on and off Tattooine in that time? Maybe?

 

[Klaus]

See, I simply cringe when watching the prequels, since they are the problem, after all.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Maybe umm... FTL technology somehow breaks down over the course of the intervening decade and a half between Episodes 3 and 4, such that it now takes much longer to transverse the distances between planets, and thus the reason Ben seems older is because he took many trips on and off Tattooine in that time? Maybe?

Everything broke down in the decade and a half between episodes 3 and 4. Hell just look how long it took for them to build the death star I compared to how long it took to build death star II

 

[Dark Psion]

As to deflecting Blaster Bolts, I always assumed it is precognition that allows them to "know" where the bolt will be.

As to Luke, he delfects bolts in Jedi durring the Sarlac battle and when fighitng the Speeder Bikes on Endor.

 

[Glyfair]

And power creep isn't just something that applies to 4e...the Jedi went from being normal warriors who have an extra sense to Jackie Chan-esque super fighters in the prequels to even more in the games. In trailers for the upcoming Force Unleashed game...well, see for yourself. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21832.html

And the step before that was the Clone Wars series that has Mace Windu use the force to push down an entire army of droids and, for most of the battle, fight an army of droids and a giant spaceship by himself.

That being said, that's more fun to watch. If you think to much about it you'll see the flaws. Many people don't watch it, I just avoid thinking too much about it I have more fun that way.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Hell just look how long it took for them to build the death star I compared to how long it took to build death star II

I've always told myself that they started work on Death Star II shortly after they started DS I.

That, and a whole lot of "innocent" contractors got massacred on the second one.